Laura Bates on extreme misogyny online, Stephanie Yeboah on body positivity, the end of the office romance, women and debt.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Laura Bates is founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. In her latest book, she traces the roots of extreme misogyny across a complex network of online groups from Pick Up Artists to Incels. Laura explains what attracts men and boys these movements.
Blogger Stephanie Yeboah has been a part of the fat acceptance and body positive movement for years. Her first book – ‘Fattily Ever After’ – is a self-help guide and love letter to black, plus size women everywhere.
In the latest of our How To series, Jenni discusses how to be on time with Grace Pacie, author of LATE! A Time-bender’s guide to why we are late and how we can change, and therapist and writer Philippa Perry.
Buy Now and Pay Later is increasingly being offered by many online retailers. How much are young women being led to spend more than they can afford? Jenni speaks to financial campaigner Alice Tapper, Sue Anderson from debt charity Step Change and Anna, who has managed to clear considerable debt.
Now that non-invasive cosmetic procedures are able to resume operating after lockdown, are treatments such as Botox being normalised? We take a look at the trends over time with journalists Alice Hart-Davis and Melanie Abbott.
As we increasingly work from home, is this the end of the office romance on screen and in real life? And why do we love the idea of one so much in the first place? We speak to the film critic Anna Smith and the Metro lifestyle editor Ellen Scott.
CLIP CREDIT: The Office. Written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Lucy Wai Editor: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:36.2 | Good afternoon in today's programme, the websites that offer the chance to buy now and pay later. How much are young women being led into spending more |
| 0:47.4 | than they can afford? The stigma suffered by women who are seen as overweight. It's happened to the |
| 0:54.6 | campaign of her body positivity Stephanie Yeboa. When you're bigger, you |
| 1:00.0 | have the spotlight on you negatively almost all the time so there have been plenty |
| 1:06.3 | of times when I've been in a restaurant with friends and I've seen people taking |
| 1:08.9 | pictures of me eating. From the body to the face. Why has fear of wrinkling made Botox ever more popular? |
| 1:18.0 | And what it like to use it regularly? |
| 1:21.0 | And the death of the office romance on screen and in life. How would Dawn and |
| 1:27.8 | Tim in the office have got together during lockdown? And why has it been such a staple for romantic drama? |
| 1:36.0 | It's ado with partly fantasy, like, |
| 1:38.0 | oh, what if my boss was so handsome and charming |
| 1:40.0 | and we fell in love, and partly reality, |
| 1:42.0 | like, for example, the Bridget Jones films where in fact that |
| 1:45.1 | boss really isn't very suitable at all. Eight years ago Laura Bates set up the |
| 1:50.5 | everyday sexism project where anyone who'd suffered unwanted attention or abuse could |
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